My #YuleSeasonSwap came this weekend from @forestandcrow 🎄❄️🐦‍⬛📚🕊️

My #yuleseasonswap is going out Monday morning. Keep an eye out for a poinsettia package that looks like this @CrowCAH I didn‘t put my tag on it, but this is from me 💁🏼‍♀️❄️ it says it should be delivered this week so you‘ll have to look at it longingly for a whole month before you can open it.

(Sara, I‘ll respond to our email thread with the tracking number for you.)

Tossing out a vibes board for the #NaughtyListHolidaySwap this year - although I think these are my vibes throughout a lot of the year.

Even after finishing this I can‘t find it in myself to be upset by this trailer. First, how could Wuthering Heights be anything but a love story? Yes, there are other prominent themes but Heathcliff‘s entire existence and every choice he makes is this relationship. Was he troubled and cruel? Yes. But please remember to question the reliability of the narrator who has clear and biased options on everyone since they were children, this does change

I wanted to be angry with everyone so I started to listen to this at work (don‘t come for me I‘m slacking on some of the classics) and I‘m about 20 chapters in and am really loving it. And maybe I need to wait to finish the book and/or rewatch this trailer again…but the trailer hasn‘t really given me an ounce of rage so far…in fact, unpopular opinions but…

My next read - first publication of this was by Page Street Publishing Co. They‘re not too far from here in Salem, MA.

Not sure I‘ll hit my reading goal for this year, but I‘m trying to get a few more under my belt now that I‘m not in crunch mode for a license exam.

Pretty quick read - kind of leave you interested and wishing there was more once you reached the end. But everything really came together nicely and I didn‘t really feel like there was any large unresolved lingering pieces. And I loved at the end we get extra insight to all the characters, a play list and some nightcaps to enjoy as you pick out the next book off your TBR shelf (shelves, let‘s be honest).

First Edition/First Printing of the Signet Classic Edition of Charles Dickens‘ Oliver Twist.

Can you imagine paying 60¢ for a book?

#vintagebooks #classiclit

This is the Modern Library Books 1953 Edition of Salinger‘s Nine Stories - minimal wear for its age.

Am looking to start using some archival sleeves for my prized books - has anyone ever used Brodart covers before? I‘ve never really thought about using them before but I do have some antique first editions that could probably benefit from some more protection.

#vintagebooks

This is the Bantam Edition published in October 1964, 3rd printing of Salinger‘s Nine Stories.

Started cataloging my library recently, I have a decent collection of modern, vintage and rare books and have started picking up some really fantastic editions and printings at Estate Sales this summer. Will show y‘all as I keep cataloging.

Scrolling through these filters wondering which one will make all this dog hair the least noticeable.

Next read - following with the mushroom cover theme, just wrapped up What Stalks the Deep and now this cute little novella.

Everything is SO CUTE, @MaleficentBookDragon thank you so much! I love it all - the candle did crack but I‘m pretty sure I have another container I‘ll be able to pop it in. It‘s all so beautiful and festive 💜💚🧡🖤

Thank you for hosting @BookwormAHN this is always one of my favorite swaps!

Can we just talk about how fricken CUTE everything is before I open it?! @MaleficentBookDragon this whole box is so stinkin cute and this chocolate is very milky!!

#MWS #ModernWitchSwap
@BookwormAHN

Opened my #AHRS2025 today! Thank you @wildwoodreads ♥️🖤♥️🖤 very cute spooky box and I love Wurthers!

Thank you for hosting @MaleficentBookDragon 📚

I should probably skip next month because I‘m just a little behind on my reading. 🥴🫠

lots of book mail today! My #MWS arrived from @MaleficentBookDragon - now just having to wait to open it as it states at me for the next whole week! 😬📚

@BookwormAHN 💜🖤♥️

@wildwoodreads @MaleficentBookDragon - look what was delivered today! #AllHallowsReadSwap.

#AHRS2025 📚🎃🧛🏻‍♀️

Whoopsies forgot to take a picture - but two forest green packages went out this morning for the #ModernWitchSwap & #AllHallowsReadSwap. Both boxes are tagged and ready for opening!

@MaleficentBookDragon #AHRS
@BookwormAHN #MWS

Took one more sick day from work today for a little more rest. I have a woodwick candle flickering, cafe sweets scent swirling through the room, a protein chocolate cold brew and the next installment of #WhatMovesTheDead.

As you can see my ARC copy has definitely seen better days and I‘m glad this was the copy I was reading by the pool instead of my signed B&N Exclusive edition I have on the way! I loved this story - though I wish we would have found out more about some of the side characters this was a fun and spooky read to kick off this season.

I ended up packing this as a vacation book to read and devoured it before the plane landed - it was a short book to be fair! But if you‘ve ever read Blake Crouch then you‘re familiar with how immersive his books can be - I just couldn‘t stop reading. It may not have been my favorite of his works but I would recommend it!

Had so much fun picking out items for the #AllHallowsReadSwap & #ModernWitchSwap this year. Going to get these guys in the mail soon!

Was really tough trying to lay this out in one picture! I opened my #FFFS and it was packed with goodies from @TheBookHippie 😍 shelled pistachios are the best, I really do have to say! Really excited to dive into some folklore and these books are just so beautiful!! And the book sleeve 🌼! I love it!!

Thank you for hosting @Avanders & @Chrissyreadit ❤️🍂🧡🍁💛 🍃 What an exciting #FallingForFallSwap 2025!

Really excited about the #MWS this year - I love all the dark and twisty, witchy, Victorian era, fall vibe boxes. Already started curating some items for this swap 😁

Dropping off my #fallingforfallswap this morning! It will be there by Wednesday 9/17! @Avanders @Chrissyreadit

“FallingForFallSwap - 2025” will be under my matches name on the label!

This is the second book I brought on vacation with me and I am absolutely loving it! I‘ve been happily floating in a pool with my book and my coffee this whole vacation.

I can‘t wait to see what everyone choosing it for their #BOTM thinks because they‘ll have early access to it too!

Most of us do this, I suppose. But do you ever feel like the guilt of not reading from your TBR but continuing to add to it will suffocate you…and then you wonder what you‘re even doing in your free time that doesn‘t allow you the luxury?

#bookloverproblems

Thank you @Graciouswarriorprincess - opened my #StaycationTimeSwap. So excited for all these goodies & I LOOOOVE sour gummies.

Thank you @DinoMom and @Chrissyreadit for organizing this!! I always love a book swap. 😍

LOOOK what I got my hands on!! Trying not to stop the book I just started to start this one. 🫠📚

My #BOTM box came while I was on vacation over the weekend! I‘m so excited to get into this because of all the hype around it! This was an add-on book for me and my main book choice was “The Names” because I really love a good dystopian story. Kind of bummed I couldn‘t get the cover straight on without missing out on the edges of this beauty!

4.5/5 ⭐️
I really liked this little novella - this can be read as a standalone without losing anything by not having read the first book (📖 #WhatMovesTheDead ). The cover art is a stunner again, I love all the art associated with this series so far. I‘m really getting into T. Kingfisher and this series is a great intro if you‘re curious also.

Airport read, seeing as how I only made it 5 pages before being interrupted the last time I opened this baby, I‘m hoping to be able to both start and finish it during this long weekend in Dallas.

#summerreading #vacationreading #airportbooks #creepybooks

I scored some b-e-a-u-tiful editions of some of the classics from an estate sale recently. They‘re all in pristine condition as well!

Super quick read!

Happy Birthday to me, picked this up a couple weeks ago. Super cute! 🥰

Relaxing with a view. 😎

Thank you @guinsgirlreads ! Very excited to dive into these books, definitely some of the sourest gummy worms I‘ve ever had! I loved them. 😍 (I have also never actually had a red hot before so I‘m very curious about these - are they tiny hard candy? lol or tiny chewy candy with a hard shell?)

#valloweenswap @WildAlaskaBibliophile @TieDyeDude

So many exciting goodies! It‘s hard to get them all in one shot. 😍♥️ gurrrlll @guinsgirlreads I‘m so excited!

#valloweenswap @WildAlaskaBibliophile @TieDyeDude

It‘s opening dayyyy! So excited to log in and see this - I was ready to wait until tomorrow!!

#ValloweenSwap @WildAlaskaBibliophile @TieDyeDude @guinsgirlreads

My two #BOTM picks this month. Penitence and Phantasma 😎📚

#TBR

Look what showed up today! @guinsgirlreads I can‘t wait to open it 🤍 Jimmy was very excited to sniff all over it also!

#valloweenswap
@WildAlaskaBibliophile
@TieDyeDude

What is everyone picking this month? Did anything stand out to you? I can‘t decide yet.

#botm

away she goes 📮
 @WildAlaskaBibliophile @TieDyeDude

#valloweenswap #litsyswap

#TBR

This is a beautiful daisy book cover which makes me feel conflicted because it‘s supposed to protect my books but I also really don‘t want to ruin it. Adding another to my TBR from a late Christmas Present. 🎄

My reading goal this year is to read some Stephen King - crazy to admit, but I‘ve never actually read anything this man has written.

ALSO! Check out my new koozie cozy! 😍 I grabbed this from The Love Mich Valentine Collection!

With class beginning tomorrow I should really relax with adding to the #tbr pile.

Jumping into this one next! #weekendreads